Marketing on the Web Bing has just updated their webmaster guidelines: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a Metrics include: Relevance: Relevance refers to how closely the content on the landing page matches the intent behind the search query. This includes matching terms directly on the page as well as terms used in links referring to the page. Bing also considers semantic equivalents, including synonyms or abbreviations, which may not be exact matches of the query terms but ar...
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Google Webmasters Guidelines Updated
Google has just updated their guidelines for websites. Website designers and webmasters should review these guidelines to insure your sites follow best practices. Among the changes are new recommendations for mobile sites and using https (secure http). Google Webmasters Guidelines Bing's guidelines have not been updated, but can be found here.
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Do you use Google's Search Console (aka Webmasters tools)for your website?? You should, especially if you have seen recent declines in traffic. Search Console is where Google communicates with site owners and where you'll find warnings about everything from SPAM to Malware. This article outlines a range of problems that Google is identifying and alerting owners about. What Are Google Penalties & What to Do to Recover ---
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Webmaster's Tools provides powerful insights into what is really going on with your website. You may have Google Analytics and think that is enough, but Google Analytics only shows you what people did after they clicked through to your website. Webmaster's tools provides information about how your website is doing in the search results before they click, and can help you understand what content on your website isn’t working. You get a "Google's eye view" of your website's health (broken lin...
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Bing has just release their Webmaster Guidelines. No great revelations here, four things are needed to rank Content, Incoming Links, Social Signals, and "indexation" (which sounds a lot like incoming links to me). With Bing's ties to Facebook, Social Signals is one you should be paying particular attention to. They do highlight some technical things such as page load time, robots.txt, and sitemap, the document covers page structure, <H1> tags for headers an do on and Navigational s...
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Many companies have gone through the expensive process of having a website designed or updated only to discover that the new website can’t be found in the search results. To prevent this costly misstep, we recommend that SEO services be included as a component of any website development project. Where web designers focus on the creative effort of designing a website that is attractive and making your products a services appeal to buyers. The SEO persons focus is on what it takes to make a web...
MoreGoogle SEO Starter Guide 2010
Google has just released a new SEO starter guide. The new guide is more complete, has more examples, and covers wider range of issues, including mobile content and images. I highly recommend that anyone who is launching or reworking a website review this document before you start. > Google SEO Starter Guide
MoreBing’s Updated Webmaster Tools
An update to Bing's webmaster tools was announced today. Webmaster tools provides valuable insight into the search engine's view of your website. Unlike Web Analytics, which shows you what traffic came to your site, webmaster tools tells you what search phrases triggered the Search Engine to display your content in the search results and if that content was clicked or not. Bing's new interface does list the search phrases your site is displayed for, which is especially useful when your site i...
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